September 5, 2024

Joanie Bily is a prominent authority on labor market data, workplace trends and expert career advice. An accomplished executive with over 25 years of experience, Bily is the author of Dive in D.E.E.P.: Strategies to Advance Your Career, Find Balance, and Live Your Best Life.

She is a Division President of Employbridge, the largest industrial staffing company in the U.S., where she oversees staffing for both the commercial and professional staffing business. Bily also leads RemX, the professional staffing division at Employbridge for over 8 years and launched RemX Contact Center Solutions, the industry leader in workforce staffing solutions to large U.S. call and contact centers.
She has been recognized as one of the “Most Powerful Women in Staffing” by Staffing Industry Analysts for seven consecutive years (2016-2023) and was the recipient of the World Staffing Summit Award in 2021.

As a principal founder and CEO of Symphony Workforce Foundation (SWF) — a Nebraska non-profit — Smith guides the organization’s vision and growth. By empowering students to discover career opportunities uniquely aligned with their personal aspirations, they strengthen communities, relationships and economic futures.

With a passion for technology and education, Smith has 25 years of IT, consulting and educational organizational leadership experience. After graduating from the University of South Dakota (where he served as the captain of the football team), he found immediate success leading sales teams for a multi-national technology company. Smith then transitioned to a leadership role with one of the largest privately held education firm in the country.